Chapter 1008: Ten Years (1/2)
The five elements were the basics of everything and formed the foundation of all great daos within the immortal dao. Every kind of life form and great dao was inextricably tied back to the five elements.
The deans of the five elements had broken through to great emperor realm through refining their respective elemental dao, which further strengthened the immortal dao in turn. It radiated more vitality than ever, facilitating the growth of all beings beneath it.
Current circumstances in the world bore a remarkable similarity to the restoration of the void realm, and a corresponding boost in ascension speed appeared as well. Just as cultivators had most easily broken through in those times, great emperor suddenly seemed a cultivation realm easily within reach.
Though the sovereigns of the five elements were also the deans of the Dao Academy, the academy represented the will of the immortal dao to a certain extent. After all, the immortal dao was rooted in Mount Xuanhuang and Qing Yu was the dao sovereign of the world. Thus, the elemental dao that the deans of the five elemental schools grasped was also a great dao of the immortal dao.
When they broke through to great emperor and fully made the elemental dao theirs, the consequential strengthening of the immortal dao wasn’t just a simple reinforcement, but a fundamental enhancement of the immortal dao.
In that moment, a thick blanket of immortal force descended from the heavens and enveloped Heavenly Emperor Qing Taxian, the celestial lords of the nine majors, rulers of the four seas, and the monarchs of the ten lands that’d already reached great emperor. It fortified their core essence and instantaneously stabilized their cultivation level.
“Damn it!” cursed one of the monarchs of the ten lands. “I’d planned on kicking in the doors of the Dao Academy and preventing the nine celestial lords from reaching a decreed cultivation realm. But now that we’ve benefitted as well…”
As thick-skinned as they may be, the rulers of the ten lands couldn’t contemplate making trouble for the academy headmaster or the dao sovereign anymore. Their motives had been very similar to Wuzhiqi’s, but with a slight difference that they would allow other great emperors to appear in the world of immortals after they were strong enough to occupy the positions at the top.
A stage of speedy progress and development was upon the world of immortals, backdropped by Wuzhiqi’s roars and snarls over the North Sea.
Completely berserk, he flung himself at the blood demon with everything he had and was answered in kind by his opponent. Why, the blood demon was an entity that had once instigated countless wars across the lower worlds and multiverse at large! Though he’d acquiesced to Lu Yun’s command, he wasn’t afraid of anything in the world, including the first monkey beneath the heavens.
As the two connate demon gods battled, the ripples of the immortal dao deepened with clarity and the presence of the chaos realm grew more defined.
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Ten years!
The two massive beings fought in the North Sea for a full decade!
While their conflict raged on, the world of immortals advanced at an incredible pace. This also extended to the immortals in the lower realms, giving rise to Supreme Immortals of Original Order in other worlds as well as countless ingress, primordial, and principal immortals.
Once at the top of the totem pole, dao immortals were now humdrum and ordinary. Traversing the unknown space to find one’s cosmic dao fruit and ascending to dao immortality was no longer anything of major import. Progressing through dao immortality and reaching ingress realm was the new symbolization of reaching the heavens.
Ingress, primordial, principal, and even supreme pure immortals began to appear in the world of immortals with increasing frequency.
From the forty-eighth year of the Xuanhuang calendar to the fifty-eighth year, the immortal dao experienced its greatest decade ever of development. Even the years after its initial establishment in the Primordial Era paled in comparison to these crucial ten years.
One could say that the modern world of immortals had fully caught up to and surpassed the primordial world in only a decade.
These ten years were also hailed as the golden years of the immortal dao. The number of experts born in this time period were many times greater than the entire sum from the period spanning the Primordial Era to the founding of the Dao Academy. The world of immortals was finally a true planet of immortals, a world in which its denizens abounded with immortality.